Mapping US Income Inequality By State The wealth of America’s top 1% sits around $52 trillion today, rising by $4 trillion over the year. Overall, the top 1% of U.S. earners need to make around $800,000 or more in salary per household. Meanwhile, about 30% of American households earned less than $50,000 last year, highlighting clear divides in wage distribution across the country. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s […]

America’s New National Security Strategy: A Surprise Departure On China Policy Authored by Arnaud Bertrand via The Ron Paul Institute In a big development, the final US National Security Strategy was just published and the refocus on the Western Hemisphere (i.e. the Americas) is confirmed. The document clearly establishes this as the US’s number one priority, saying that the US will now “assert and enforce a ‘Trump Corollary’ to […]

China Successfully Operates World’s First Thorium Molten Salt Reactor By Haley Zaremba of OilPrice.com An experimental Chinese nuclear plant reportedly just crossed a historic threshold, successfully operating the world’s first thorium-based molten salt reactor (TMSR). The Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics has broken a major scientific barrier by successfully converting thorium to uranium in a […]

China & Japan Narrowly Avoid Live Fire Conflict After F-15 Radar Lock Incident A major and very dangerous incident occurred over waters off Japan’s southern islands on Saturday, but has only been publicly revealed Sunday. Chinese PLA military aircraft locked radar on Japanese fighter jets, at a moment Japan-China relations have deteriorated to their worst in many years Japan and Australia are urging calm in the wake of the […]

ChatGPT Accused Of Encouraging Alleged Serial Stalker In Latest OpenAI Controversy Authored by Jonathan Turley, We have been discussing how ChatGPT is accused of encouraging the suicide of various individuals as well as the defamation of other individuals. Various lawsuits have been filed against the company, but now federal prosecutors have indicated that ChatGPT may have played a role in enabling or encouraging an accused […]

Freshly Pardoned Cuellar Says Biden DOJ Tried To Entrap Him; Trump Lashes Out Over ‘Lack Of Loyalty’ As many of you know, President Trump pardoned Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) after he fell under investigation for alleged bribery after criticizing Biden’s open border policies. As Trump put it on Truth Social, “For years, the Biden Administration weaponized the Justice System against their Political Opponents, and anyone who disagreed […]

Russia Stands “Shoulder To Shoulder” With Venezuela, Blasts US War Footing Russia on Sunday issued new statements voicing deep concern over the US force posture in the southern Caribbean, warning against any possible slide toward direct military action. The fresh Kremlin statement said Moscow is standing shoulder to shoulder with Caracas, with a fresh appeal for the Trump administration to avoid exacerbating tensions which could […]

Oversupply Warning Jolts India’s Solar Buildout By Julianne Geiger of OilPrice.com, India’s solar sector has hit that awkward stage of adolescence where ambition seems to be outpacing demand. And now the adults in the room are issuing critical warnings. A new letter from the clean-energy ministry, quietly circulated to the finance ministry, urges lenders to think twice before showering cash on yet another wave of standalone […]

Mainstream Media Jumps On Bogus Narrative That J6 Pipe Bomber Was A Trump Supporter The arrest of Brian Cole Jr. on Thursday for planting pipe bombs near the DNC and RNC headquarters on January 5, 2021, has exposed yet another case of media malpractice. The Trump administration quickly noted that all the information needed to catch the suspect had been available to the Biden administration for four years, and yet nothing […]

Zelenskyy Says He Had ‘Long And Substantive’ Phone Call With Witkoff, Kushner As Peace Talks Continue Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday that he had a “long and substantive phone call” with his national security secretary Rustem Umerov, Ukrainian negotiator Andrii Hnatov, special envoy Steve Witkoff, and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, who were gathered in South Florida. “I am […]

‘Twas The Night Before Fed Day… By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Maybe it was being in Europe, with a particular shout-out to Zurich for putting me in a holiday mood. Academy also has our holiday party this week, which I’m looking forward to, though I’m not sure why I thought guest hosting Bloomberg TV at 6am the next morning would be a good idea. Or maybe it was the daunting task of needing to write about something that […]

Barclays Asks: Netflix-Warner Bros Deal – Holy Grail… Or Poisoned Chalice? Senators, including Mike Lee, quickly flagged antitrust concerns after Netflix unveiled its $72 billion bid for Warner Bros. (film and TV studios, HBO, and HBO Max), signaling a high likelihood of congressional hearings in the near future. Hollywood insiders were sharply divided, while Wall Street analysts questioned the marriage of a digital disruptor […]

‘Fourth Reich’: Musk Strikes Back At EU ‘Tyrants’ After X Fine Update (1300ET): Elon Musk is not taking the outrageous fine from Brussels bureaucrats lying down, lashing out at EU officialdom for taking on Nazi characteristics and oppressing their own citizens’ best interests… The tyrannical, unelected bureaucracy oppressing the people of Europe are in the second picture https://t.co/j6CFFbajJa — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) […]

Biden, Who Swore He Was Fit For Another Term, Butchers America’s Name Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, Former President Joe Biden resurfaced on Friday and stumbled through his remarks once again, months after insisting he was fit to serve another term and not too long after announcing he had stage IV cancer.  The 83-year-old former president mangled the country’s name as “Amerigotit” while delivering a […]

Russian Forces Advance As Ukraine Hit By More Than 600 Drone Strikes Overnight Russian forces made advances in Ukraine as U.S. and Ukrainian officials prepared for a third day of peace talks in Miami. Russia unleashed 51 missiles and 623 drone strikes on Dec. 6, which was observed as Armed Forces Day in Ukraine. Ukraine shot down 30 missiles and neutralized 585 drones in the attack, which targeted residential buildings, energy […]

California Agency Approves Water Management Plan Increasing Output Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has approved a revised plan for managing California’s Central Valley Project (CVP), with the goal of sending more water to farmers in the state An aerial view shows Friant Dam, which holds back Millerton Lake in Friant, Calif., on March 7, 2025. Jae C. Hong/AP Photo The […]

Denmark Cuts Ukraine Aid Nearly In Half Amid Corruption Scandal Denmark plans to scale back its military assistance to Ukraine next year, and the amount cut is being widely reported as a huge amount – up to almost half of what’s it’s been since 2022. According to Danish Broadcasting Corporation, the tiny northern European country has long stood out for its exceptionally high contributions that it made earlier in the conflict, […]

As The Year Ends, What Does 2026 Hold Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Markets opened in December with a surge in optimism as retail investors regained their “bullish spirit.” That improvement continues to build on the bullish case we discussed last week: “Seasonality, positioning, and trend still lean in favor of the bulls. December is historically one of the stronger months for equities, […]

Goldman Reveals Housing “Affordability Illusion” When Factoring Other Costs Affordability has surged into the news cycle and is almost certain to dominate the coming midterm election cycle. And when voters talk about “affordability,” they’re most concerned about the basic cost of living. Beyond food and healthcare, nothing hits harder than housing costs.  Goldman analysts led by Arun Manohar have some bad news on the […]

Climate Groups Falter, Bill Gates Recalibrates, But Al Gore Soldiers On Authored by Gary Abernathy of The Empowerment Alliance, It’s been an interesting few weeks on the climate hysteria front. Organizations associated with climate alarmism have recently found themselves engulfed in turmoil. Bill Gates has recanted earlier predictions of gloom and doom. But the Father of Climate Panic, former Vice President Al Gore, remains […]

Trump’s 3 Choices In Ukraine (A Win-Win-Win For Russia) Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, With the War in Ukraine now approaching its fifth year and possibly reaching a climatic stage, it’s timely to offer an overview of the situation. This overview has three vectors – the situation on the battlefield, the corruption scandal rocking Kyiv, and the prospects for the success of the Trump peace plan. The thread […]

Iran’s Executions Reach Decade High Iranian authorities have executed over 1,000 people between January and September 2025, the highest number of yearly death penalties conducted in Iran that Amnesty International has recorded in at least 15 years. As Statista’s Tristan Gaudiat shows in the chart below, within less than nine months, the number of people executed by the regime has already surpassed last year’s grim total of […]

French Government Plan To ‘Label’ News Outlets Backfires Spectacularly Via Remix News, A few weeks back, French President Emmanuel Macron announced a new “media labeling” system, while also assuring citizens that this “media accreditation” will not include any sort of state-backed labeling.  Suffice it to say, these assurances have only stoked fears of an authoritarian creep into the media sphere.  Back in November, […]

Washington’s New National Security Strategy Details How Trump 2.0 Will Respond To Multipolarity Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Trump 2.0 just released its National Security Strategy (NSS). It can be read in full here, but for those with limited time, the present piece will summarize its contents. The new NSS reconceptualizes, narrows, and reprioritizes US interests. Focus is placed on the primacy of nations over […]

Indonesia Remains The World’s Most Generous Nation Started in 2012, Giving Tuesday, which takes place on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, is a day which aims to encourage people to do good. Described as “a global generosity movement unleashing the power of radical generosity”, the goal of Giving Tuesday is to encourage people to donate time or money or to use their voice for a good cause. While generosity may seem like a […]